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Show POULTRY. I Raising roultry. time a rich farmer told the tint tho best time to go Into or gialn was when everybody 1 to null. Ho didn't own all tho hat Joined lilm. but he did own I hundred nrres of good farming end held a llrst mortgage on ie re. Outside of this pnitlcular no-his no-his ho was Just like other peo-y peo-y jear no boo where money diave been made had wo been ) see ahead Thoie Is hudly u hat some paitlctilar ftutn pu-Iocs pu-Iocs not nearly double In value. It seven years ngo horses weie given nway, right then would reen tho tlmo In bu r j bent - "ires In the lounlr Homo s hay la vvnith i little above IIm of cutting and stacking, then st thing we know It Ib uwny tin reach. Hut what has (Ills gt "Mth the poultrj question ! Ver-lothlng. Ver-lothlng. but the Indications are hat those who mite poultry thin s: sc-ison nnTI lots of It will get I prlie, or to use a popular say-ley say-ley will bo on the ground door, count of the drouth through the fiU the past season, thousands of m leathered up nnd sold every, that would eat corn and was e, and the hens did not escape icrlflce, ' extensive poultry huyei told the recently that his business n.ild than ever, nlthough he had to twice as much teirltnry to get a "It seems to me there Is n chapter In this statement for 'ultry raisers. It certainly Indl-i Indl-i shortage In poultiy and to such lent that tho poultry raisers will lunate until the demand Is sup. which will take at least two of our best efforts M M John-n John-n rarm, Field nnd Fireside. 'Ping Poultry Tree Trom Lice. rsad a good deal about llko kill. e The most satisfactory method Hive found foi dealing with the uettlon Is ns follows! Our roosts ade from 4x4s. the upper portion d. put up In table fashion, not two feet high. These wo take B' "nee a month nnd with an old P thoroughly (saturate with stronit ater which kills lice, miles, etr. Valla also to a little above roosts realed tho same Tho noBt boxes Wso taken out and the litter In bet pn, Are, which cleanse them, All the ashen are saved and fielded to the dust hath. Thli does not Involve much labor nnd Is very effective- and Inexpensive. We never set our hens In the same room with laying stock, and our Ilqeks arc very free from this pest. I believe tint If their houses are kept free fiom filth and vermin nnd a good durtlng place provided, poultry will keep themselves freo from lice. Mrs. Ing ills, In Hocky Mountain Husbandman. Husband-man. Tertlle Eggs for Early Spring. If one desires lo secuic feitlle eggs early in the season. sa II. S Uabcock In the New England Homestead, theie lire teitaln precautions to be ' l.en. Tho hens should bo Induced to exercise nH much as possible To seeuie thin end theie Is nothing better than to hive abundant llttti und scntter whole grain In It, so as to compel the hena to scratch for theli food The fond should contain at leist 10 per cent nnd 'JO per cent would be bcttei, of animal matter. Whether tho nnlmal food Is ground green bones, beet scraps oi unlni il meat Is not of so much consequence as that nnlmnl food be given. Probibly, If tho bones hnvo plenty of lean meat adhering adher-ing in them, thoj aie the best to use. lleef scraps I have used In piefeience to other animal foods, because they are alvwiVH obtnlnahlo nt teasonnble pikes. Snmo HO.called nnlmal meals are npt to be too laxative and their use le-qulics le-qulics mine emu than most pnultomcn are willing to give. If a mash Is given foi ono meal, It should be fed warm, not hot, and the addition of a little sulphur will be found beneficial The eggs should bu gathered regularly, and frequently If the weather Is cold In ordei to nicvent theli being ehllled While nn egg will endure eonsldernblo eold, et even a slight rlilll may pc-vent pc-vent It from hatching and It Is nlwa)s ' better to be safe than to be sorry" In such tniitteia. The fresher tho eggs tho slrongei will bo their fertility. While eggs sometimes will hntch when six weeks or two months old, they nrc much more likely lo hatch If not more thnn one week old If they must bo kept, their fertility will tend to be preserved by turning them over every day or two. If eggs aie purchased for hutching and come fiom a dlstnnco, they should he unpacked promptly, put In a cool place and allowed to he undlstuihed upon up-on their sides for from twenty-four to fort) -eight hours, according to the distance dis-tance they have traveled before they aie placed tindei a hen or In an Incubator. Experiments have shown that the J ir-rlng ir-rlng Incidental to travel to some degiee displaces the contenta of tho eggs nnd that a period of rest Is necess iry to seeuie se-euie the proper readjustment of the coin tents, Neglect to give) traveled eggs the requisite lest Is probably lesponslble for not n few complaints regarding their not being fertile. A rotten egg; lj one that lias been fer tile Not a few complaints me made that the eggs set were Infertile because after Incubation they were rollen lint their rottenness proves exactly the lo-verse lo-verse An egg which has ncvei been fertilized will be na odorless after three weeks' Incubitlon as It was at the start The sweetness may not prove that It was never fertilized because It Is possible pos-sible that fertile eggs may he so Injured In-jured that the germ never starts lo grow, but rottenness pmves that there was u germ which began to grow but died during some pcilod of the Incubation. Incuba-tion. How to Market Eggs. It Is a very poor plan at any time to cair) fevcr.il dozen of eggs to market In n single basket. lied one upon another an-other Indeed, this repeatedly results hi such disaster as to make rioubl) manifest man-ifest the proverbial warning alwut hnv-ing hnv-ing too manj esgs In ono banket sijs l'rcd o Slblev in the i:plt-mlt There-fere There-fere rather Ihsn to lake ihe chances of earning back some of llicin In a cracked or scrambled Male over time eggs aro marketed it Is much heller to proclllo pastchnjrd tillers that are used In double egg crates, and then construct a neat, square box, which will Just accommodate a single tier of the egg tiller with a partcboard between enih Trip box should be constructed of light stuff, an empty shoe box will suffice It should be made entire and the cover Iher sawed off evenly all tho wo around, whereupon the hinge and catch can be put A rtout btrrcl hoop well smoothed and bejit Into shape makes an excellent handle for It The box should be of Just the right size to sold the eggs gathered during every ev-ery few days In this waj. If the egrs nre prompt!) marketed, and each is perfectly per-fectly clean and of good size, something above ordlnar) market rntes may be obtained for them An egg however, may bo "onl) nn egg" to the local dealer, whether old, fresh, dlrl), clean, big or little, and If this Is Ihe cafe It Is ndvlsa-bio ndvlsa-bio to shin to some citv dealer the best eggs, for he will appreciate them enough, as a general thing to mjke it profitable for tho producer to do so When this Is done a number of theso small egg boxes will bo required, and In order to make them convenient for shipment end cleats should bo used In place of the hoop handles. Winter Layers. Thern ate two kinds of fowls that lay well In the winter the ones that aro scientifically handled by men who make a business of poutr) raising and the hens on farms where there Is during the summer a large supply of some kind of meat food In either case Ihe pullets are rapidly developed during their llrst six months and are rend) to begin the dropping of eggs In th autumn sa)s the Farm nnd Itanch We sometimes hear of farmers' flocks that have laid well all through tho early winter nnd nn Investigation Investi-gation we nlinost alwa) nnd that they have had meat supplies of some kind In jeara when grasshoppers are unusually unusu-ally abundant the ment supply Is. of coutse, large, rrd the chicken having tho run of the tleldj and the exercise at-tendant at-tendant on the chasing of the game thrive according!). When natural conditions condi-tions nre such that only a grain ration In accessible to the pouitr), the rarmer must' supply th deficiency, for It has leen fully demonstrated that meat Is neces-sar) neces-sar) for the securing of the best results Peafowls Good for Table. Teafowls are not only ornamental, but excclent for tho tnble They are slow In renchlng maturity, and the hen seldom la)n befcro she Is two )enrs old The chicks, however, grow ver) ripldly at first, but as they begin to feather almost al-most at the start of life they require fre-quent fre-quent feeding or the) will perish They soon begin to tl), and roost on Hie highest high-est positions! the) can find The hen la)s from ten to sixteen eggs, according to ago and treatment Tho )oung chicks should be fed Ihe same as snunc turkejs, but neat, flnel) chopped, should be given three times a week after the first week Tho main In a quarrelsome bird In the birn)nrd and ofien makes short work of the young chicks Thev aro morn ornamental or-namental than profitable, though the tnll feathers ma) be pulled for salis as soon as the moulting season begins Mirror and Tanner. |